painted in white, but our first snow last week was really a thick layer of ice with 6 inches of snow over that. And THAT wasn't even gone away when we got another 10 inches of snow! That's 16 inches in one week, guys.
And I love how cozy it makes the house and how it amazes me every time I walk past a window, but I DO NOT like to be ice-bound. Once our long driveway and the roads are impassable, I get so antsy. I think it must be a form of claustrophobia. It's not like I had any plans or anything, nowhere I had to be, but just knowing that I couldn't go if I wanted to has driven me crazy at times.
Our birds have been such frequent, almost constant visitors this week and have drained the sunflower seed feeders dry many times. When Ray wasn't refilling the feeders, he was shoveling and de-icing the driveway, which he had to clear 3 times this week just so it wouldn't freeze overnight.
So here are photos of our wee--
Ice covering everything:
Our tiny solar lighthouse:
Then the 1st snow:
Narnia lamppost at end of missing driveway:
What I have taken to calling my cottonball bush:
Beautiful snow-dusted trees on our northern property line:
Looking out the window of the master suite addition:
Birds at the feeders out my kitchen window:
One of my favorite Cardinals:
View from top of our driveway--haunted mill is in the distance:
This photo makes me think of how Bob Ross, the painter, used to paint "happy little trees." All of these looked like they had been touched with a brush full of white paint to edge their upper surfaces:
One of my cupcakes that Ray baked with a sparkler candle:
Interesting effect--snow through the blinds:
Looking across the pond:
This is during the 2nd snow:
Looking up into the western sky, Venus and Mars so close together that they look like one planet:
